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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnJacob\fnJacobWell}{While the Fourth Gospel makes two references to the
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well as that of \Jacob\fnJacob{} (vv. 6, 12), Genesis has no record of such a well,
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although it does mention \Jacob\fnJacob{}'s gift of land around Shechem to his son \Joseph (Gen 33:19; 48:22).
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It is in the Targums (the Aramaic translations of the O.T. used in Synagogue worship)
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and the later rabbinic literature that well traditions linked to \Jacob\fnJacob{} can be found.
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When \Jacob\fnJacob{} arrives in Haran seeking a wife,
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he comes to the local well. According to the Targums,
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\Jacob\fnJacob{}'s presence brings a miraculous welling up of water that lasts twenty years.
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\newline\indent
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``When our father \Jacob\fnJacob{} raised the stone from above the mouth of the well,
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the well overflowed and came up to its mouth, and was overflowing for twenty years ---
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all the days that he dwelt in Haran.'' (Targum Neofiti to Gen 28:10)}
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\subsection{\John 4}
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\subsubsection{Departure From \\Judea}
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\lettrine[lraise=0]{S}{o} when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that \Iesous was making
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and baptizing more disciples than \John ---
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\VS{2} and yet \Iesous himself was not really baptizing anyone,
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instead his disciples [were] ---
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\VS{3} he left \\Judea and departed again into \Galilee.
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\subsubsection{Conversation With a \Samaritan Woman}
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\begin{translatornote}
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Compare the following story with:
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\Abraam's servant and Rebecca (Gen 24:10-33),
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\Jacob\fnJacob{} and \Rachel (Gen 29:1--14), \Moses and Zipporah (Ex 2:15--22).
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In all these stories the man is on a journey and it is about noon.
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\begin{itemize}
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\item The bridegroom travels to a foreign land where
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\item he encounters a woman or group of women at a well.
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\item One of the characters draws water.
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\item The woman returns home to tell about the encounter with the stranger.
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\item There is an invitation to a meal, a betrothal followed by a wedding.
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\end{itemize}
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\Iesous, at Cana, was the true Bridegroom who provided good wine (\myxref{\John}{2}{9}).
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He has been named as the bridegroom by \John the Baptist (\myxref{\John}{3}{29}). \\
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As bridegroom he comes to the well and meets a woman
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who is both an individual and a representative of her people. \\
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He requests water then she requests water from him.
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After their discussion she returns to her village to speak of her encounter and,
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while there is no betrothal, there is an invitation to stay (\myxref{\John}{4}{40})
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and by the conclusion of this scene there is a significant union
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between the \Samaritan villagers and \Iesous.
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Furthermore, essential to the story is that she's \Samaritan.
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The \Samaritans were mixed-race Jewish and Gentile, so no one wanted them.
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And, it was very taboo for a man to speak to any woman not his wife in public.
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\end{translatornote}
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\VS{4} Now it was necessary for him to be going through \Samareias.
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\VS{5} So he comes into [a] city of \Samareias, that is being called Suchar,
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near the piece of land that \Jacob\fnJacob{} gave to \Joseph his son.
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\VS{6} Now the well of \Jacob\fnJacob{}\fnJacob\fnJacobWell{} was there.
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So \Iesous having become weary from the journey was sitting by the well.
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It was [about] [the] sixth\footnote{approx. noon. Hours were counted from dawn --- approx. 6.a.m.} [hour].
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\VS{7} [A] woman from \Samareias comes to draw water. \Iesous says to her:
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Give me to drink.
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\VS{8} For his disciples had departed into the city, that they buy food.
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\VS{9} So the \Samaritan woman says to him:
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How do you being [a] Jew ask to drink from me who is [a] \Samaritan woman?
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(For the Jews do not have dealings with the \Samaritans.)
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\VS{10} \Iesous answered and said to her:
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If you had known the gift of God and who is the [one] saying to you:
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Give me to drink,
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you would have asked him and he would have given to you \zoe{}-living\fnZoe{} water.
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\VS{11} She says to him:
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Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep;
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whence then do you get the \zoe{}-living\fnZoe{} water?
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\VS{12} Are you greater than our father \Jacob\fnJacob{} who gave the well\fnJacob\fnJacobWell{} to us
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and he himself drank from it and his sons and his animals\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}?
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\VS{13} \Iesous answered and said to her: Everyone drinking from this water will thirst again,
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\VS{14} but whoever drinks from the water that I will give to him,
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he will \negd{not} thirst into the age\footnote{``into the age''
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(EIS TON AIŌNA): a Greek idiom meaning ``ever'' or ``forever''.
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Literally ``into the age'' --- same root as AIŌNIOS.},
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but the water that I will give to him will become in him
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[a] well of water springing-up
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to \zoe{}-life\fnZoe{} eternal.%
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\fnAionios{}
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\VS{15} The woman says to him:
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Lord, give me this water,
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that I not be thirsting nor be coming here to be drawing [water].
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\VS{16} He says to her: Be going, call your husband and come here.
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\VS{17} The woman answered and said:
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I do not have [a] husband.
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\Iesous says to her: You said well: I do not have [a] husband.
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\VS{18} For you have had five husbands,
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and whom you now have is not your husband.
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This truly you have said.
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\VS{19} The woman says to him:
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Lord, I perceive that you are [a] prophet.
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\VS{20} Our fathers worshipped in these mountains%
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\footnote{The discussion with the \Samaritan woman takes place at the foot of
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Mt. Gerizim where it is likely that the remains of the \Samaritan Temple would
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have been visible to one standing beside \Jacob\fnJacob{}'s well.
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This helps explain the context shift here.},
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and you [people]\fnYouPlural{} say that in Jerusalem is the place where [one] must be worshipping.
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\VS{21} \Iesous says to her: Be trusting me, ma'am\fnWoman{},
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that [an] hour comes when neither in these mountains nor in Jerusalem
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will you [people]\fnYouPlural{} worship the father.
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\VS{22} You [people]\fnYouPlural{} worship what you do not know,
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we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
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\VS{23} But an hour comes and now is when the true worshippers will worship the father
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in spirit and truth,
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for indeed the father seeks such [to be] his worshipping [ones].
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\VS{24} God is spirit,
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and [his] worshipping [ones] must be worshipping in spirit and truth.
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\VS{25} The woman says to him:
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We know that [a] Messiah is coming, the [one] being called Anointed\fnChristos{}.
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When that [one] comes, he will declare to us everything.
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\VS{26} \Iesous says to her: I am [he], the [one] speaking to you.
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\subsubsection{The Disciple Return}
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\VS{27} And at this [point] his disciples came
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and were marveling that he spoke with [a] woman.
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Nevertheless no one said: What do you seek? or Why do you speak with her?
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\VS{28} So the woman left her water jar and departed into the city, and says to the men:
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\VS{29} Come see [a] man that told me all that I did.
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Is this the Anointed [one]\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}?
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\VS{30} They came from the city and were coming to him.
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\subsubsection{Workers for the Harvest}
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\VS{31} In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him saying: Rabbi, eat.
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\VS{32} But he said to them:
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I have bread to eat that you do not know.%
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\footnote{The dialogue
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with the disciples about food (vv. 31--34)
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mirrors the exchange between \Iesous and the \Samaritan woman about drink (vv. 9--15).
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The woman/disciples speak about water/food at a material level
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whereas \Iesous uses the images of water/food to speak of a different type of sustenance.}
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\VS{33} So the disciples were saying to one another:
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Did [someone] bring to him [something] to eat?\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{}
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\VS{34} \Iesous says to them:
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My food is that I do the will of the [one] having sent me and accomplish his work.
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\VS{35} Are you not saying that there is yet four months and [then] the harvest comes?
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Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and behold the fields that they are white already for [the] harvest.
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\VS{36} Already the [one] harvesting receives wages and gathers fruit for \zoe{}-life\fnZoe{} eternal,
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so the [one] sowing and the [one] harvesting together rejoice.
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\VS{37} For in this the word is true,
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that one is the [one] sowing and another [is] the [one] harvesting.
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\VS{38} I sent you to be harvesting what you have not labored [for];
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others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
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\subsubsection{The \Samaritans Respond}
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\VS{39} Now from that city many of the \Samaritans trusted\fnPistisJohn{} in him
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because of the word of the woman testifying that:
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He said to me all that I did.
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\VS{40} So as the \Samaritans came to him,
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they were asking%
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him to abide with them,
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and he abode there two days.
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\VS{41} And many more trusted because of his word.
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\VS{42} And to the woman they were saying,
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We no longer trust because [of your] speaking,
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for we ourselves have heard and know that this is truly the savior of the Cosmos\fnKosmos{}.
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\subsubsection{Onward to \Galilee}
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\VS{43} Now after the two days he went out from there to \Galilee.
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\VS{44} For \Iesous himself testified
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that [a] prophet does not have honor in his own native-land.
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\VS{45} So when he came to \Galilee,
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the Galileans received him,
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having seen everything that he did in Jerusalem in the festival,
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for they also came to the feast.
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\subsubsection{Healing the Royal Official's Son}
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\VS{46} So he came again to Cana of \Galilee,
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where he made the water [into] wine.
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And there was [a] certain king's officer whose son was sick in \Kapernaoum.
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\VS{47} He, having heard that \Iesous is come out of \\Judea to \Galilee,
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departed to him and asked that he come down and heal his son,
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for he was [about] to be dying.
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\VS{48} So \Iesous said to him:
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If you do not see [a] sign and [a] wonder,
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you [people]\fnYouPlural{} would \negd{not} believe!
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\VS{49} The king's officer says to him:
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Lord, come down before my son dies.
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\VS{50} \Iesous says to him: Be going, your son \zoe{}-lives\fnZoe{}.
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The man trusted the word that \Iesous said to him, and he was going.
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\VS{51} Now already when he was going, his slaves met him saying that
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his child \zoe{}-lives\fnZoe{}.
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\VS{52} So he inquired of them the hour in which he was better;
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so they said to him that:
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Yesterday [the] seventh hour\footnote{Counting from dawn is approximately 6am, this is around 1 p.m.} the fever left him.
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\VS{53} So the father knew that it [was] the hour in which \Iesous said to him:
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Your son \zoe{}-lives\fnZoe{}, and he believed [in] him and his whole house.
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\VS{54} This second sign \Iesous again did coming out of \\Judea to \Galilee.
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